Speaking as the person who started the original draft of your article on Wikipedia back in 2004, I can assure you of two things:
I just wanted to add -- also delayed -- that I was very happy to see the original article's post, and that I'm not as clear on how wikipedia articles and subsequent changes work; I always had the sense that they were far more communal. That said, I didn't mean any overt criticism of anyone who wrote or edited, because I know I wasn't entirely clear on my end (thus the post itself), so it would be somewhat hard for people who are not me to be clearer. And yes, a bunch of articles cropped up, and a couple of people assumed that my married name would the Sagara West, and used that; I didn't see the harm in it, and I didn't correct the usage.
It wasn't until I got the cheque that it became an issue, because the cheque, from a quasi-government organization, had to have been changed on their end =/.
But, ummm, this was mostly written in self-mockery, not mockery of anyone who's doing the unpaid work of making the listings available and if that wasn't clear, I apologize.
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Date: 2008-05-27 02:27 am (UTC)I just wanted to add -- also delayed -- that I was very happy to see the original article's post, and that I'm not as clear on how wikipedia articles and subsequent changes work; I always had the sense that they were far more communal. That said, I didn't mean any overt criticism of anyone who wrote or edited, because I know I wasn't entirely clear on my end (thus the post itself), so it would be somewhat hard for people who are not me to be clearer. And yes, a bunch of articles cropped up, and a couple of people assumed that my married name would the Sagara West, and used that; I didn't see the harm in it, and I didn't correct the usage.
It wasn't until I got the cheque that it became an issue, because the cheque, from a quasi-government organization, had to have been changed on their end =/.
But, ummm, this was mostly written in self-mockery, not mockery of anyone who's doing the unpaid work of making the listings available and if that wasn't clear, I apologize.